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'Absent Friend' by Belinda Fox

Bio

Artist Statement

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

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Awards

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Bio

Born 1975, Melbourne

Studies

1999 - University of Melbourne (Graduate Diploma)
1993 -96 - Victoria College of the Arts (Bachelor of Fine Arts – printmaking)

Travels
India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, USA, Paris, London, Tibet, Beijing, Singapore

Website: www.belindafox.com.au

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Artist Statement

Finding My Way 2009-2011
 
Finding My Way – home is from a series of large-scale print installations that were originally shown in Perth in 2009 and are the culmination of a ten-year period of conceptual and technical inquiry. As a meditation on past histories and future possibilities, the work is deeply personal.  
 
Multiple narratives of progress versus tradition and constructed realities play out in these installations. Ladders balance precariously.. It is unclear which direction one can or will take. Children look down from above, seemingly impervious to the chaos and uncertainty below, but this journey is open-ended and has potentially infinite readings for the viewer.
 
In 2011 Fox plans to modify ‘Finding my way II’ to suit the Art Vault’s unique space and to add yet another layer to this collage, print and paper work.
 
This will be the first time Fox has exhibited in her hometown for more than 10 years.

Solo Exhibitions

2010 - Day to Day, Beaver Galleries, ACT
2009 - Finding my way, Turner Galleries, WA
2008 - Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, Melbourne Art Fair
2007 - Backwards-Forwards, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2007 - Camouflage, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2006 - Balancing Act, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2003 - At the Still Point, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2001 - Meta Narrative, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne

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Group Exhibitions

2009
Stories of our making, Australian printmaking, Bristol, UK
Women, Art and politics, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC

2008
A view from here, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

2007
Busan Print Festival, Korea (Australian Representative)
This is not a print show, Plimsoll Gallery, TAS (touring NSW, VIC)
Marks and Motifs, RMIT Storey Hall, VIC (touring nationally)
Loka, with Marine Ky, Beaver Galleries, ACT

2006 
Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
3 Australian Artists, with GW Bot, Margie Sheppard, Lane Gallery NZ
The artist/the printmaker, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne

2005                
Print Out, Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS
Up to Speed, with Melinda Schawel, Beaver Galleries, ACT
 33 – print exchange, PJPA, Melbourne

2004
23 – print exchange, PJPA, Melbourne
Even, Mildura Arts Centre, VIC

2003                
Nexus, PJPA, Melbourne

2002
Confluence, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, VIC
Crossroads, Broken Hill City Gallery, NSW
Sojourn, Beaver Galleries, ACT

2001                
4th Artists Book Fair, QLD
Concurrent, PJPA, Melbourne

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Projects

2010
Artist in residence, Skopelos Foundation, Greece

2009
Artist in residence, Turner Galleries, WA

2008
Artist in residence, Cicada press, COFA, Sydney
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Vic
Crown Casino Commission, Melbourne

2007
Crown Casino Macau Commission, HK
Hunter Island Press Residency funded by Arts Tasmania
Fremantle Art Centre Residency and solo show, WA

2006 & 08
Lecturer VCA (printmaking)
Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant
Australian Council grant (travel to Tibet and do artist and printer residence at the
Singapore Tyler Institute)

2005
Invited speaker ‘Print Matters’ Fremantle Art Centre, WA

2004
Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant (artist and printer exchange USA)
Project manager (Australian leg) of printer and artist exchange USA
Invited speaker at the 5th Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, ACT

2003
Artist Workshop Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA

2002
Print Council of Australia Commission 2002 (edition of 40 prints)

2001/02
Arts Victoria grant (Darwin printer mentorship)
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant (catalogue for 3 traveling shows)
Curator ‘Concurrent’, ‘Crossroads’, ‘Confluence’ three traveling shows at
Warrnambool Regional Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, and Port Jackson
Press, Melbourne

2001
Curator ‘Collaboration-the journey of artist and printer’, PJPA, Melbourne

2000
Arts Victoria Grant (artist in schools project.)

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Awards

2010 - Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2010 (winner)
2008 - Ex Libris Book Award, Artspace Mackay (acquired)
2007 - Prometheus Visual Art Award (acquired)
2007 - Burnie Print Prize, TAS (winner)
2006 - Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast QLD (acquired)
2006 & 2007 - ABN AMRO emerging artist award (finalist 06)
2005 - Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
2004 & 06,2010 - Swan Hill Art Award, Swan Hill, Victoria (acquired 2006)
2003,06,07,09 - Fremantle Art Prize, WA (Highly Commended in 2003)
2002 & 2006 - Hobart City Art Prize, TAS
2002 & 2004 - Silk Cut Award, Melbourne (winner 04)
2002 & 04,09 - Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania

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Collections

National Gallery of Australia ACT
Print Council Of Australia VIC
Burnie Art Gallery TAS
Wollongong University NSW
Fremantle Arts Centre WA
Artspace Mackay QLD
Swan Hill Regional Gallery VIC
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery QLD
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery QLD
Warrnambool Art Gallery VIC
Mildura Arts Centre VIC
Queen Victoria Museum TAS
Parliament House Melbourne VIC
Gold Coast Art Gallery QLD
Charles Sturt University NSW
QUT Art Museum QLD
BHP Billiton Melbourne
ArtBank, NSW

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